Jorge Arriagada
Jorge Arriagada (born 1943 in Chile) is an award-winning composer for film. He is perhaps best known for his long-term collaboration with director Raúl Ruiz. He has also worked with directors like Patricio Guzman, Barbet Schroeder and Olivier Assayas. Jorge Arriagada was born on August 20, 1943 in Santiago. He studied composition and orchestral conduction at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago. He then obtained a scholarship from the French government that enabled him to study expressionism with Max Deutsch, who was Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg's friend and student. He also studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and orchestral conduction with Pierre Boulez. In 1972, the Guggenheim Foundation in New York awarded him a fellowship because of his contribution in the field of electronic music. He has been living in France since 1966, working with experienced as well as promising directors while composing the scores of 40 of Raúl Ruiz's films. He has over the years explored many different genres, including classical, contemporary and folk music as well as jazz and tango.
Music
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Night Across the Street
On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker, begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life: a trip to the movies as a young boy with Ludwig van Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted...Watch Movie
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Exterior Night
Using extensive rear projection to remarkable effect (actors, in color, against black and white backgrounds and all photographed in high definition), Mark Rappaport evocatively plays with the themes of noir while contemporizing the stakes involved. In EXTERIOR NIGHT, there is no past. There is no...Watch Movie
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Salvador Allende
A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch?" In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán returns to his native country...Watch Movie
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel MYSTERIES OF LISBON (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated...Watch Movie
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The Sapphire of St. Louis
In 1741, a ship called the Saphir sets sail from a port in La Rochelle, France on its way to the New World. On board are thirty crewmembers and two hundred seventy-one slaves. Somewhere off the coast of Santo Domingo, a slave revolt erupts. This little-known moment in history...Watch Movie
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